Hadith 31

it dies, and when the water bird is withheld from the water for a while, it dies? So, I–asws do not see the senses in this except as broken upon you, and that is not befitting to happen except from a Wise Arranger Making a creature for the water and a creature for the land. Or, tell me, what is the matter that the ant which has not seen the water at all, when it drops in the water, it swims, and the fifty years old human being from the strongest of the men and their most intellectual not knowing the swimming, is thrown (in the water), and he drowns? How come his intellect, and his mind, and his experience, and his insight did not point him upon the things with the collection of his senses and his health, that he should realise that by his senses just as the ant realised it, if it was so that rather it would be realised by the senses? Is it not befitting for you that you know that the heart is the one which is a mine of the intellect in the child which I–asws described, and others from what you heard, from the animal, it is which urges the child to seek the breastfeeding, and the picking bird upon picking the seas, and the predator (bird) upon swallowing the meat? ’ He said, ‘I didn’t find the heart to know anything except by the senses! ’
I said, ‘But, when you refuse except for the tendency to the senses, so we–asws accept your tendency to it after your rejection of it, and we–asws answer you regarding the senses until it is accepted with you that these do not recognise from the rest of the things except the apparent from what it besides the Lord–azwj, the Exalted, Glorious is He–azwj and Exalted; as for what is hidden and not apparent, they don’t recognise it, and that is because the Creator of the senses Made a heart to be for these, arguing by it upon the servants, and Made for the senses, the evidences upon the apparent by which he is pointed with upon the Creator, Glorious is He–azwj. The eye looks at creatures connected with each other, so it points to the heart upon what it sees, and the heart thinks where the eye is pointing it to upon what it has seen from the kingdoms of the skies and its rising into the air without any support to be seen, nor any pillars withholding it, neither delaying it once and it would break up, nor brought forward another time and it would decline, nor does it come down once so it would be nearer, nor rise up another time and be remote, nor does the length of the pillar change nor a new one created for the interchange of the nights and days, nor does an area of it fall apart, nor does a side from it break off. And with what is witnessed from the seven different stars flowing in their courses for the rotation of the orbit, and its turning in the constellation day after day, and